Chemistry
Grade-9
Easy

Question

What is a halogen that is solid at room temperature?

  1. Cl
  2. Br
  3. F
  4. I

hintHint:

Iodine has strong vanderwaal forces of attraction.

The correct answer is: I


    • Down the group atomic mass increases and vanderwaal forces increases.
    • Fluorine, chlorine, bromine is gas in nature.
    • Iodine is solid at room temperature, the molecules of iodine are held together by strong vanderwaal forces of attraction which cannot be broken at room temperature.

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